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CS485/540 Software Engineering Project Details and Team Roles Cengiz Günay Fall 2012 Günay Project and Team

Project Assignment Main Project = 50pts = 50% of grade Scrum participation = 20pts (1 pt each) Presentation of project role = 10 pts Acceptance report (including documentation) = 10 pts Product Documentation must include: Development “cost” (logs of time spent) Deployment instructions Known issues (bugs) Work as a team Figure out how to make best use of each person’s time Poor performance by one affects all members Great performance by one improves all members More time � = higher grade Günay Project and Team

Agile Process for Class Project Team must be able to adapt & streamline tasks Fluid planning at all phases Focus only on the essential work products Keep design and development lean Provide incremental deliveries of working components Key elements of an agile team are self-organization and self-direction Still, some recommendations follow. . . Günay Project and Team

Steps for Teams to Take 1 Elect overall Project Lead 2 Assign Lead for each presentation 3 Assign Lead for each deliverable 4 Agree on meeting & work schedules Submit that schedule to Instructor 1 Assign an “Iteration Board Master” 2 5 Set up initial project meeting with Project Manager Refine user stories 1 Be sure to understand expectations, requirements 2 6 Configure the working/development environment Decide who will code what parts of the project 1 Decide whether pair programming is useful for this or 2 not Günay Project and Team

User Stories & Developer Points User Stories Defined by the “user”—that is, the project manager User stories describe how the product will be used in very specific ways Analogous to functional requirements Act as guidelines on how to plan for testing the product Developer Points Created from the user stories Should be discrete, codable, testable elements Usually one programmer, but can be pair--programming Can be used to collect “metrics”: how many points per week can a developer complete? Günay Project and Team

Project Team and Roles 1 Project manager: Cengiz 2 Software architect: Valentin 3 User interface design: Man Wang/Chi Zhou 4 Data and database modeler: Valentin 5 Lead developer: Stefan 6 Lead documentation: Stefan 7 Lead testing: Man Wang Günay Project and Team

Fact/Fallacy Tidbit Fact 5 There is no “magic bullet.” Tools & methods are over-hyped: Most only improve productivity/quality by 5 to 35%, and the time-to-improvement is long. Discussion Studies over the past 30 years show benefits are small, incremental Tendency to expect that because hardware can be made 10x, 100x beter, that some cool so8ware tool will do the same for programs Process and exper.se are beter predictors of success than which tool or methodology is used From Robert Glass, “Facts & Fallacies of So8ware Engineering” Günay Project and Team